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HONDURAN women’s organisations have warned that their country has “gone back decades” after the parliament voted for a total ban on abortions.
Women took to the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa earlier this week after a law passed by three-quarters of the 128-member assembly granted a foetus the same status as a living person.
“The country has just gone back decades in terms of public policies in favour of the rights of women, who are often victims of violence and mistreatment,” Quality of Life spokeswoman Para Cruz said.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports